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How sports betting can quickly become self-destructive

I bet fifty dollars on a game last week and lost and then bet a hundred to win it back and I think I might have a problem.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gambling escalation reveals underlying impulse control issues and relationship with risk and money.

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“Where Are You with Sports — playing and watching?”

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